Drummond Shiels

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Sir Thomas Drummond Shiels MC (born August 7, 1881 in Edinburgh , † January 1, 1953 in London ) was a British politician.

Life

Shiels was born in 1881, the second of eight children to the printer James Drummond Shiels and his wife Agnes Campbell . He attended elementary school in Glasgow and took a job as a photographer at the age of twelve. He also attended evening school. In Edinburgh, Shiels opened a photo studio with his father and brother. On August 11, 1904, he married the teacher Christian Blair Young . The marriage produced a daughter.

With the outbreak of World War I , Shiels joined the military. He was badly wounded in a battle. For his services, Shiels was awarded the Military Cross and the Belgian War Cross. After the war he enrolled at the University of Edinburgh to study medicine. He graduated as a doctor and surgeon in 1924. In the late 1920s, Shiels turned down Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald's request for a peer survey . In 1939, however, he accepted the accolade as a Knight Bachelor . In 1945 Shiels took a job in public relations at the General Post Office . After the death of his wife in 1948, Shiels married Gladys Buhler in 1950 . He died in 1953.

Political career

After the war, Shiels was elected to the Edinburgh City Council for the Labor Party . Shortly before completing his studies, he ran for elections at national level for the first time. The Labor Party, which ran for the first time in this constituency, sent him in the general election in 1924 against the liberal James Hogge and the unionist Charles Black Milne in the Edinburgh East constituency . With a share of the vote of 44.0%, Shiels clearly prevailed against his opponents and subsequently moved into the British House of Commons for the first time .

In the following general election in 1929 , he increased his share of the vote and thus held his mandate. In Parliament, Shiels acted first as State Secretary for India and then as State Secretary for the colonies. After strong loss of votes, Shiels was defeated in the 1931 general election by the liberal David Marshall Mason and left the House of Commons.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Entry in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
  2. ^ The Liberal Year Book 1925, p. 241.
  3. ^ The Liberal Year Book 1936, p. 204.
  4. ↑ Drummond Shiels at Hansard (English)
  5. ↑ Results of the 1931 lower house elections ( Memento of the original from March 10, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.politicsresources.net

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SURNAME Shiels, Drummond
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Scottish politician
DATE OF BIRTH August 7, 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH Edinburgh
DATE OF DEATH January 1, 1953
Place of death London